Education CS Ezekiel Machogu has responded to reports that the government was planning to stop funding public universities.
Speaking on Tuesday, November 8, Machogu said that no one ever said that the government was planning such a move.
"I want to make a clarification. Nobody ever said that university funds were going to be done away with. No," Machaogu stated.
The CS further said that the government had already allocated Sh50 billion to public universities, and no one was going to interfere with that money.
He added that the government had also allocated another Sh15.8 billion to the Higher Education Loans Board (HELB).
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"The Government has allocated capitation of Sh50 billion for University education and another Sh15.8 billion to the Higher Education Loans Board. I want to assure our universities that the Sh50 billion and the other Sh15.8 billion to HELB are ringfenced and nobody is interfering with that money," Machogu stated.
The CS was speaking during a groundbreaking ceremony for a project at the Kiambu Institute of Science and Technology (KIST).
He said that the government was optimistic in its efforts to sustain support for both Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) institutions as well as universities.
"We remain optimistic that, as we sustain our support for both the TVET and University subsectors, the institutions will continue with their longstanding tradition of diversifying their income generation activities to ensure they do even better," Machogu said.
